12.12.2023
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 23-02 "In partnership for the goals? The level of agreement between SDG ratings" by Tobias Bauckloh, Juris Dobrick, André Höck, Sebastian Utz and Marcus Wagner has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

25.10.2023
CFR Working Paper has been accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 23-03 "ESG Criteria and the Credit Risk of Corporate Bond Portfolios" by Tobias Bauckloh, Maurice Dumrose, André Höck and Christian Klein has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Asset Management.

24.10.2023
Impact Award for CFR Junior Professor of Sustainable Finance
Our CFR Junior Professor Dr. Tobias Bauckloh was awarded with the "Impact Award" of the LIFE Climate Foundation at the 7th Liechtenstein Workshop of Sustainable Finance for his CFR Working Paper No. 23-02 "In partnership for the goals? The (dis)agreement of SDG ratings". We are very happy about this success and congratulate him.

23.08.2023
CFR Working Paper has been accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 20-07 "Unobserved Performance of Hedge Funds" by Vikas Agarwal, Stefan Ruenzi, and Florian Weigert has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Finance.

01.08.2023
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication

The CFR Working Paper No. 20-05 "The Decline of Trust Across the U.S. Finance Industry" by Peter Limbach, P. Raghavendra Rau and Henrik Schuermann has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

31.07.2023
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication

The CFR Working Paper No. 17-04 "Do Buy-Side Analysts Inform Sell-Side Analyst Research?" by Gjergji Cici, Philip B. Shane and Yanhua Sunny Yang has been accepted for publication in Accounting and Finance.

01.06.2023
New Member of the CFR Research Team
We are proud to welcome Frederik Simon at the CFR. Frederik Simon is research assistant and PhD student at the Department of Corporate Finance at the University of Cologne.

02.04.2023
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication

The CFR Working Paper No. 22-10 "One for the Money, Two for the Show? The Number of Designated Market Makers and Liquidity" by Erik Theissen and Christian Westheide has been accepted for publication in Economics Letters.

01.04.2023
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 16-04 "Spoilt for Choice: Determinants of Market Shares in Fragmented Equity Markets" by Peter Gomber, Satchit Sagade, Erik Theissen, Moritz Christian Weber and Christian Westheide has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Markets.

08.03.2023
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 21-08 "Option Return Predictability with Machine Learning and Big Data" by Turan G. Bali, Heiner Beckmeyer, Mathis Moerke and Florian Weigert has been accepted for publication in The Review of Financial Studies.

01.03.2023
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 13-10 "Managerial Multitasking in the Mutual Fund Industry" by Vikas Agarwal, Linlin Ma and Kevin Mullally has been accepted for publication in the Financial Analysts Journal.

01.02.2023
Deutschlandstipendium
The Centre for Financial Research financially supports five students in the field of finance at the University of Cologne as part of the "Deutschlandstipendium" --> Certificate.

01.01.2023
New Members of the CFR Research Team
We are proud to welcome Paula Kirsch and Andre Vieren at the CFR. Paula Kirsch and Andre Vieren are research assistants and PhD students at the Department of Finance at the University of Cologne.

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Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
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